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The right of liberty is God-given and immortal. It cannot be regulated. Or controlled. It cannot be banned. And it must not be restricted. — Marsha Blackburn

It's because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That's the reason. — Alexander McCall Smith

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside. — Vikram Seth

First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned. — Lawrence Taylor

Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan. — Sam Simon

A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings. — Walter Winchell

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal. — Leon Kass

Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards.
(This Charming Man) — Marian Keyes

Began to read a piece on how a high street chain of stores had banned Cliff Richard's Christmas songs. — Robert Galbraith

No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left. — Edwin Markham

They claimed popular support, but banned all opposition. Lloyd — Ken Follett

The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history. — Charles Colson

If I could have banned them all ... I would have! — Dianne Feinstein

As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed. — Herman Kahn

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory. — P. J. O'Rourke

Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book. — Chuck Palahniuk

I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking piano strings. — Eric Lewis

Walls were invented simply to frustrate scientists. All walls should be banned. — Jules Verne

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas. — Pete Hautman

Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence. — Mitchell Symons

No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening. — Katherine Rundell

You know I've had work banned. — Kathy Acker

A world where love can be banned. Your fate is dictated by the highest bidder. Exports have no choice. — Jill Thrussell

Priests were illegal, saying the mass was illegal, all banned by the Revolution. — Barbara Kingsolver

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail. — Jon Johansen

They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned. — Marjane Satrapi

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned. — Natan Sharansky

Art thou deaf when friends are banned as foes? — Sophocles

The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned. — Cobi Jones

As far as I'm concerned, this is the worst thing that's happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru. — Cassandra Clare

[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking. — Auguste Piccard

How exactly do you get banned from a pizza delivery place?" "Hey, don't judge me! Those bastards had it out for me! — R.L. Mathewson

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight. — Stephen Chbosky

In India books are nearly always banned at the request of people who do not read but whose literary sensibilities are easily offended. — Tavleen Singh

Gabriel thought maps should be banned. They gave the world an order and reasonableness which it did not possess.
'An Ice-cream War — William Boyd

Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good. — Paul Hawken

Mecca has been banned for Christians for hundreds of years. — Kwasi Kwarteng

I've been banned from cutting my own fringe. — Suki Waterhouse

I've not given up hope the belly-putter will be banned. The R and A and the USGA are looking at it right now. — Ernie Els

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually. — Ma Jian

10) Donald Duck cartoons were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear any pants — Adam Anderson

So... they banned me! — Deyth Banger

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. — Rebecca West

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in. — Chris Crutcher

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house. — Tori Amos

No,you're officially banned from listening to us. Or thinking about this. Or even thinking about thinking about this, understand? — Kiersten White

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided. — Lauren Myracle

Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that? — Shandy L. Kurth

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases. — Kurt Vonnegut

I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same. — Bernie Sanders

Barbies were banned at our house, along with television other than PBS. As a kid, I found this horribly embarrassing. — Leila Janah

The bureau had long banned the use of the word tornado because it induced panic, and panic brought criticism, something the bureau could ill afford. — Erik Larson

I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.' — Olivia Wilde

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'? — Joseph Henry Jackson

Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created. — Joe Strummer

Comments that suggest that Muslims should be banned from the United States are offensive and unconstitutional. — Mike Pence

You heard the decree of the gods, boy. You've become entirely too close to this mortal. You are hereby banned from further contact! — Rick Riordan

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned ... THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer. — Ken Bruen

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good. — Kathryn Stockett

The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18. — Abhishek Bachchan

I saw that e-mail was insidiously invading Phones 4u, so I banned it immediately. — John Caudwell

My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football. — Dada Maravilha

There's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is popular or unpopular. What is banned in Boston may be bid on at Christie's. — Ron Brackin

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. — Salman Rushdie

At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball. — Peter Ueberroth

I'm actually banned from the Himalayas, because I'm too good at yoga. — Judah Friedlander

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval. — Ezra Pound

Bolivia recently did what every country should do - banned the use of animals in circuses. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

As a group, we've been banned from two water parks, one bar, and a dog-grooming salon. — J.A. Rock

I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living. — Thom Yorke

I hate that word 'hate' - it should be banned. — Nicole Appleton

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown? — Rachel Weisz

A decision by Germany's highest court that banned the display of crosses or crucifixes in classrooms has sparked widespread outrage and protest. — Stephen Kinzer

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. — Brigitte Bardot

Being banned from UK will be minor irritant for [Donald] Trump, but catastrophic for local community around Turnberry. — Corri Wilson

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record. — Billy Joel

Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it. — Judy Blume

I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience. — Kristin Kreuk

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land. — Libby Houston

How many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned? — Bob Dylan

The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China. — Amanda Schull

[Censors] rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offered to his tomb. — John Milton

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power. — James Howe

If you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life. — Michael Bisping

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me. — Judy Blume

The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Smoking's banned in my house. Cigarettes harm your body, he said, knocking back half of the bottle of beer. — Jo Nesbo

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics. — Bill Toomey

The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be banned — Geert Wilders

I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World. — Thom Yorke

(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries. — Barbara Kingsolver

Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.' — Salman Rushdie

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances. — Jim Sensenbrenner

Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture. — Cressida Cowell

Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored. — Oliver Markus

What good does it do to ban some guns. All guns should be banned. — Howard Metzenbaum

Every book that is banned is a badge of honor. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I'd like. — Elizabeth Wurtzel